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Show ' GENERAL. Washington News. Washington, 8. The secretary of the interior will, in a circular letter. notify the pannon agents to settle up hy the end of tho current quarter. A recommendation will bo made to congress to roduce the rates of fees allowed to be collected from pensioners. pension-ers. This is in view of the large emoluments from each consolidated office. The president, to day, signed the convention between the postal departments de-partments of the United States and Italy. The following is tho result of the proceedings of the court martial at Fort Abercrombie, which recently tried Major Reno on a charge of having made improper overtures to the wile of Captain Bell: War Department, May 8th. The proceedings in this case having been forwarded to the scretary of war havo been most oarefnlly considered, aud have been submitted to the president, pres-ident, who approves the finding and seutonce, but is pleased to mitigate the latttr to suspension from rank aud pay for twe years from the ISth of May, 1S7S. Major Reno's conduct toward tho wife ot an absent officer, aud in UBing tho whole force of hiB power as commanding officer of the post to gratify his resentment against her, cannot be too strongly condemned, con-demned, but after long deliberation upon all the circumstances of the cane as shown in the records of the trial, it is thought his offences, grave as they are, do not warrant the sentence of dismissal and all its consequences con-sequences upon one who has for twenty years borne the reputation of a brave man aud an honorable ofiicer, and has maintained that reputation upon the battle fields of the rebellion and in contests with the Indiana. The president has therefore modified the sentence, and it is hoped Major Reno will appreciate the clemency thus shown him, as weli as tho very reprehensible repre-hensible character of tho acts oi "which he was found guilty. (SigneJ) LiEO. W. McCrary, Secretary of War. A dispatch received at the state department de-partment today, announces that KdwardF. Beale, United States minister min-ister to Austria has left Vienna on 1'ave of absence for Washington. Ke is accompanied by his family. The Mexican border troubles were i ho subject of a discussion at the cabinet ca-binet meeting today, and it was (jreed that organized cattle stealing ud other depredations upon tho property in Texas of American citi-z-?us must be eneclually stopped without with-out f miner delay on tho part ot Mexican Mex-ican authorities. Correspondence with the Mexican government will bo immediately reopened by the state department. Unless proper steps be promptly taken by Mexico our military mili-tary forces, under General Ord, will probably bo authorized to cress toe io Grande to pursue and capture the marauders. Cuicago, S. Inter-Ocean's Wash- ifigiuu . winjcruijjg me reiusai of the South Carolina senate to participate partici-pate in the election of a chief justice, it is learned that the democrats who expected to control the senate by having the speaker give the casting vote, counted oa the suppsrt of John Cochran, nho was elected as an independent in-dependent candidate to act as a democrat. dem-ocrat. ThU would make tho senate a tie. Cochran votes as often against tho democrats as with tbem. He is not reliable on either side. He is an , ex-confederate, kiiled a man last winter ia a bar-room altercation, hates carpet-bitjgers, personally dislikes dis-likes Justice Wi.iard, and his vote is ea that account. General Boynton of the Cincinnati Gazette has just returned from a trip to Ohio. Though a strong Hayes! man, he represents thai tne feeling I in Ohio among republicans is almost! unanimous against the president's policy. Boynton says the republicans could not now carry a single county! in Ohio. It is possible James Russell Lowell will be appointed Austrian1 iiin-'sier, 1 |